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Announcing the launch of Windows Server 2016

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77 pointsdustinmoris17 comments

Has support for HTTP/2

And finally ECDHE_RSA with AES_GCM support.

I haven't seen a Windows server in quite some time, but then I haven't worked for "normal" companies for ages. How ubiquitous is it in SMEs?

Quite ubiquitous in healthcare.

Every where I have worked in the last few years. Windows Server is still a requirement for a lot of businesses, especially smaller companies that use MSPs.

Although recently, I've been running into a lot more Linux stuff, and it seems that people are beginning to see open source as an option now.

If nothing else, you're likely to see it running Active Directory, even in otherwise predominantly Linux shops.

Is there a new version of the free Windows Hyper-V Server?

https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-announces-the-general-avai...

Thanks, we updated the link from the Microsoft Ignite live stream (https://ignite.microsoft.com/#fbid=RtDV16ZEdMb).

The official link is https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/09/26/a...

and this is important because it's not actually GA.

From that link:

"Availability

Windows Server 2016 is available for evaluation beginning today and will be on the October price list. Volume licensing customers will be able to download fully licensed software at General Availability in mid-October."

Thanks! We updated the link again.

Did they put the start menu back? Whoever decided the mobile-style start screen made sense on a server product...

It's the Windows 10 start menu. It's basically still the mobile-style start screen from Windows 8/2012, but doesn't take up the full screen, and has a vertical list of apps on the left-hand side.

Classic Shell should continue to work if you'd like to restore sanity.

According to wikipedia it will be released between September 26 and 30, 2016

Wikipedia is not a news website, it's a tertiary source, so it will definitely not be up to date :)

Check this out: https://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-announces-the-general-avai...

That is a much better source thanks!

Is ReFS bootable yet? Can Ubuntu for Windows be installed on this? Is there anything else about this that I should care about?

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